Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Brian Schatz sent a letter to the State Department on Tuesday, asking the administration to outline ways to use U.S. leverage over the Israeli prime minister.
Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Brian Schatz sent a letter to the State Department on Tuesday, asking the administration to outline ways to use U.S. leverage over the Israeli prime minister.
IN A POLARIZED, angry, anxiety-and-crisis-ridden United States of America, wide swathes of a fragmented and divided electorate find common ground at least on what they don't want: a 2024 repeat of a presidential election between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Yet eleven months in advance — subject to change, but not easily — that spectacle is just what we'll get.
Many Democratic lawmakers are telling their staff to let phone calls asking for a cease-fire in Gaza go to voicemail.At least 24 lawmakers in the House and Senate have called for a cease-fire in Gaza, but Joe Biden has said there is “no possibility” of that happening. Instead, Israel agreed this week to a daily four-hour “humanitarian pause,” which it seems to think is enough time for civilians to flee bombs on foot.Staff from more than 24 Democratic congressional offices told HuffPost in a stor